LETS JUST GET THESE UNCAREING BASTARDS OUT.THEY HAVE JUST ABOUT UPSET EVERY ONE EXCEPT THE SMALL FEW WHO HAVE OODLES OF CASH.I WOULD BET MY LIFE THEY ARE OUT NEXT TIME.
MARK THESE WORDS,THEY HAVENT A HOPE IN H3LL.

So George's logic seems to suggest that when someone starts work in the private sector, they'll start to vote Tory. I don't think there is any evidence that this will happen. OK, evidence from a recent poll has measured voting intention between public and private sector AT A GIVEN POINT IN TIME, but this is not an indication of how someone is likely to vote if they change from one sector to the other. Any attempt to show that these statistics paint that picture must be taken with a huge degree of skepticism, since that is not what is being measured. This is part of the problem with people who do not understand statistics trying to interpret what they mean. Remember, George, that they only represent a sample of the population as a whole which is taken to be representative - they are not necessarily the 'truth' of things, and should not be taken as such. Indeed, the 34:40% ratio in the private sector is likely to be affected by the margin of error, meaning that the 'true' picture may be even closer than that which appears.

What amazes me are the number of people and politicians who think the public sector creates wealth, when in fact it does the opposite.

I lost my public sector job in October 2010 and, apart from 2 Xmas stints at the Post Office, haven't worked since. So I've gone from paying tax & NI to drawing benefits off the state. What a genius Gideon is! No wonder he has now run up the UK's largest ever deficit & presided over the longest recovery from a recession in UK history!

"“You create a bigger private sector, you create more Tories.”"

So let me try and understand the logic here. Forced into redundancy by conservative policies. Likely to suffer at least a period of the indignity of unemployment and the stresses of job hunting. Almost certainly to end up worse paid and with fewer employment rights. And as a result you vote conservative.

Cannot compute.

I don't trust these statistics.
Does this include jobs outsourced?
Does it include NHS staff once employed by the state but now miraculously private sector workers but still paid for by the state?
Smoke and mirrors and BS?

And the increasing deficit level proves that, really, its no big problem. After all, this country is just a vehicle for the rich to ride into the wealthy sunlit uplands, and to abandon and/or strip for parts if it goes into serious recession. So full speed ahead, maximising the pool of unemployed so that the unwashed will be grateful for being able to work three jobs that will only provide a mean, attenuated, hand-to-mouth existence. But who cares when the Real economy - finance and the City - is doing so well on the backs of a malleable, docile, de-unionised mass of desperate people.

Calloo callay, oh frabjous day! Trebles all round!